7. THEY MIGHT TELL THE SUPERMODELS STORY
Usually, they hate to talk about it. In 2001, the brothers appeared in a Vogue shoot on the North Shore. "We didn't try to be in that," insists Chris. "We met the photographer at a benefit for an elementary school. He asked if we wanted to spend the next day rolling around in the sand with supermodels. Dan was single. Keith was single. The surf was flat. Who doesn't want to wrestle with supermodels?"

For the Malloys, the answer really does depend on the surf. In 1996, Dan modeled for Ralph Lauren for a few days in New York. But when they asked him to continue on to Florida, a swell was hitting the California coast. He went home.

All three brothers are over six feet and chiseled and surf like demigods. Are they just interchangeable?

Complementary is more like it. Chris, who does most of the talking, tells me about a time all three showed up at a local break and saw a guy they'd had a fight with out in the lineup. "So," he says, "I was thinking about how to logically explain my actions, Dan was worried about how the guy felt, and Keith just said, 'Fuck him, get in the water.' "